The production of word-final alveolar stop consonants /t,d/ were examined for Black English (BE). Words belonging to six phonological environments—s_♯C, n_♯C, V́_♯C, V_♯C, V́_♯V́, and V_♯V for word-final /t,d/ were embedded in four short stories and recorded by ten male BE speakers, resulting in over 1000 utterances. The recording sessions also included 10 minutes of conversational speech in the form of interviews. In addition to critical listening, spectrograms were made of all items of interest and the acoustic properties of the /t,d/ were examined in detail. Preliminary results, obtained from the short stories, indicate that deletion of word-final /t,d/ in BE occurs more frequently in the s_♯C and n_♯C environments, as suggested previously by Labov et al. However, deletion does not account for the phonological realization of the other four environments. Instead, processes such as glottalization and unreleased stops must be considered for a more complete phonological description of the word-final /t,d/ in BE. [Work supported in part by NINCDS.]